Announced since middle of September, the new Italian Show devoted to the Packaging Industry has been officially introduced to the press on the 16th October.
It has been named PACKOLOGY: the first edition will take place at the Rimini Fairground (Italy) from Tuesday the 8th till Friday the 11th June 2010
The Show is reserved to the packaging industry operators and will have a three-year periodicity; it is the fruit of the partnership between UCIMA Association and Rimini Fiera SpA that has allocated a promotional budget of one-million euros for this new event.
The exhibition will occupy the west wing of the Rimini fairground, eight halls for a total of 60.000 sq.meter area. On display to the Show visitors will be able to see packaging conditioning and processing machinery, packaging materials, labelling, coding and marking technologies, accessories and components, logistics, press and editorial applications.
PACKOLOGY is addressed to those operators involved in the processing, conditioning and packaging industry touching several sectors: consumption goods (no food), beverage, house-hold chemistry, pharmaceuticals, food, health care etc.

U.S.A. keep on being the first destination of the automatic packaging machines produced in Italy. This has been released by the category association UCIMA, in a recently published survey referred to 2008.
The Italian industry, leader in the manufacture of automatic machines together with Germany, exports the 90% approx. of its production (data referred to the impact of the foreign sales over the total turnover). Significant is the export growth recorded towards the new markets such as Turkey and Poland.
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